Items matching borders, colour (results page 14)

Sheldonian Theatre from Title Page The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

The engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford where the book was printed. The engraving appears on thetitle pageof each volume.

Keywords: buildings, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-11-11

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

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Victorian Border, Silver on Black. Christian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

This Victorian Floral Border is taken from the front cover.Gold border on a black background.Red border on a white background.Black border on a white background.Moody silver border on a black backgrou [...]

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-08

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Dustjacket: rear Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)

The back of this little book had adverts on the dust jacket for some other books produced by Yale University Press: three books by Paul Claudel, Minister Plenipotentiary of France to Brazil:The Hostag [...]

Keywords: page images, colour

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Added: 2006-10-09

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Musical Border Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

This musical border features Greek or Roman busts at the corners, musical scores, laurel wreaths, musical instruments including violins, trumpets and horns, and is printed mostly in green and black.It [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, musical instruments, music

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-14

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Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover. Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The Chi-Rho, or Chiro, symbol is a PX monogram from te first two letters of the Greek word for Christ. This gold and christian Px symbol is set in a gold circle surrounded with flowers on a black fiel [...]

Keywords: symbols, crosses, religion, christianity, colour, floriated borders, easter, geometric borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-12-08

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Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sized The Circling Year (1870)

This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds thetitlepageof the book.This version is proport [...]

Keywords: borders, xmas, christmas, foliated borders, vinles, leaves, full page, surrounds, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2018-02-20

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Contents heading with children looking inside a chest A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

In this line drawing the artist Willy Pogany has drawn a big old chest or trunk, with a boy and a girl looking inside while a cat (with a bow tie) mews at the boy. The chest illustrates (in a visual p [...]

Keywords: chests, contents, children, boys, girls, cats, investigating, searching, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-11-14

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Holy Court Book decorated leather spine The Holy Court (1663)

It’s an antique! This leather-bound book was produced in 1663, although it has for sure been rebound more than once in the meantime. Here is the spine of the book, with gold lettering and tooled deco [...]

Keywords: book covers, spines, lettering, colour, pictures of books, books

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-30

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Title Page, New Testament Bible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

The title page has a floriated border full of wild flowers (including thorns), a bird (possibly a partridge) and flowers. There’s some decorative Victorian type, too.There is a version that’s just the [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-01

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Imprint Page The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The imprint page shows the printing and copyright information; it also has a coloured design that I have made into a separate image,Fox and Goose.

Keywords: page images, colour

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Added: 2009-01-27

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Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorations The Holy Court (1663)

Detail fromthe spine of the book(the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together.

Keywords: ornament, decoration, book covers, colour, pictures of books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Irregular border of flowers, birds and nature Bible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves even has a pairof nesting birds in it. It came from thetitle pageof the second half of this book.There is also a version of theborder coloured gree [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements, spring, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-01

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Fox and Goose Decoateive Element The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A decorative motif, or page element, from the imprint page, shpwing a fox and a goose (or a duck maybe) reading a book.

Keywords: ornaments, animals, birds, books, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-27

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Green floriated border Bible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves even has a bird in it. It came from thetitle pageof the second half of this book.The original was ablack and white floral borderaround the title pa [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-01

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Bible Symbols Title Page Bible Symbols (1908)

Some people say that a good title page should contain an odd number of clumps of text; here there are five, so this must be good, right? I have also made a separate image out of thepurple borderaround [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Added: 2010-06-21

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Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border Bible Symbols (1908)

This vine-leaf border is characteristic of the late Victorian era; although this book was printed in 1908, it was first published in 1904, and is on the cusp between Victorian and Edwardian. It is pr [...]

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-21

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Bookplate The Holy Court (1663)

This bookplate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, is pasted inside the cover of “The Holy Court.” The pencil writing at the top right is a bookseller’s annotation from the 1980s and is mode [...]

Keywords: bookplates, colour, handwriting

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Title Page The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1897)

The title page has a red border with Maltese Cross ornaments at the corners.There is a stamp at the bottom,English Book Exchange, 333 Florida 333, Buenos Ariesalthough I bought the book in St. Catheri [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, colour, borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-09

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Victorian vine-leaf page border Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

A border for a title-page, made from vine leaves with fruits. The engraving has a lot of small dots that might be ink spots from overly fast or careless printing, or might be part of the design.

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, leaves, vines, grapes, fruit, twigs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-28

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